The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Power Africa team has offered to support the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) through a collaborative effort with the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) to evaluate a broad program of investments in off-grid energy service. The goal of the project is to perform feasibility analyses for several types of off-grid electrification projects including: a) energy systems to provide power service to groups of remote villages; b) conversion diesel generation systems providing power to established islanded generation-distribution systems to renewable energy power sources; c) evaluation of five run-of-river hydroelectric projects for which technical studies have been performed; and d) identification of the power requirement for irrigation sites at different regions of Ethiopia. USAID/Power Africa has approved a proposal and work plan by NRECA International to perform feasibility analyses for these projects, through a project titled Beyond the Grid Ethiopia Project (BTG).
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
(The job description has been written to reflect management’s assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.)
As part of an interdisciplinary team, the EPFS shall support project implementation processes associated with the feasibility studies described above as part of BTG Project/Ethiopia. The EPFS will perform the following activities: